Sustainable development: characterisation and recycling in radioactive waste

A string of radioactive waste treatments has been built in the past decades that followed the installation of nuclear industry. They are the response for public health, protection of populations, environmental concerns and radioprotection of workers. After hesitant beginnings and groped steps, new regulations have been put in place together with the industrial infrastructure Everyday actuality shows us the rise of collective awareness for Sustainable Development, of which the nuclear industry is a powerful actor. Besides, new regulations make more dynamic the steps of management of nuclear waste. Finally, new needs are rising up with the advent of industrial age of dismantling. At crossroads of these trends, there are still some lanes for evolution after experimentation. (author)